A new corruption?

 

So, I was briefly talking with my mother-in-law, as recently as this morning,  about the state of the world and she always frames her global politics in terms of the cold-war alliances mixed with the new alliances -- Russian Communists/US old money/liberals, Marxists, new communists = deep state--US/capitalism/ground-roots/conservatives = true democracy bearers, which isn't a wrong way to see the polarization of the world.  I enjoy talking with her about politics as I can easily see the two parties and what they represent.  

I wonder, though, actually see it literally coming quickly, how differently the new good and the new evil will be seen and called.  In the end, whether talking about the old and the new (as far back as Jesus Christ's new church [and even before, back to Cain and Abel or back to before this world, as Lucifer plotted against the Father's plan of Salvation and His champion, Jehovah, who would make it all possible...] of Joseph Smith jr. and the New Jerusalem in Jackson County, Missouri verses the armed mob with blackened faces and Governor Lilburn Williams Boggs who killed him in Carthage, Illinois and their extermination order that was legal and in force until 1976.  Boggs claimed that the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, then called, "Mormons" had committed "open and avowed defiance of the law" and had "made war upon the people of Missouri".^[2] Governor Boggs directed that "the Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the State if necessary for the public peace—their outrages are beyond all description".

What will the new parties/allegiances/families/people be called and how differently will they be seen by the others living on the Earth or by the book writers?  Their philosophies will be different in what ways, as the time/language/philosophies/theologies will be different from one another.  In the end, though, we always start with Good (God and His Christ, called Jesus) vs. Evil (Lucifer called Satan).

In the Book of Mormon, we read about Alma, son of Alma, and four of his friends (who each was a son of Mosiah), who sought to destroy the church of God who was miraculously saved and converted, and the church was not destroyed at that time.  It, likewise, won’t be destroyed at this time, though, its members will be tried and tested.

 And how will these new groups be called?  Gog vs. Magog?

JPS

Deny—stemming from a multi-generational collusion?

 

In the small book of 4th Nephi (which has only a single chapter), in the 27th verse, we read:

And it came to pass that when two hundred and ten years had passed away there were many churches in the land; yea, there were many churches which professed to know the Christ, and yet they did deny the more parts of his gospel, insomuch that they did receive all manner of wickedness, and did administer that which was sacred unto him to whom it had been forbidden because of unworthiness.

By “deny” we are to understand that they chose to or refused to follow Christ’s Gospel or keep all of His commandments—chose to do something other than to follow in Christ’s footsteps exactly or simply decided to leave-out essential parts or practices of the Gospel... Which we are always in danger of doing, not as a church, but as we individually follow our Lord—we might choose to NOT do the thing(s) that is/are hard for us to do or replace it with something else; add our own little ritual or covenant/commandment-breaking practice. It’s easy to do and hard to recognize it and admit that it’s not following Christ or His church, especially when we learned it from a trusted loved-one...

Part of the reason that it's so difficult to not fall into the trap of not doing (omission) or doing (commission) what we've been taught or shown to do by Jesus the Christ is because we've learned or grown-up doing one thing or another over and over and it's become a tradition.  It's something we've always done or something we've always seen done and now it's just the way that one acts, right?

It's easy to not do something that we've never seen done (by our mother and/or father or older siblings, not to mention our grandfather or grandmother...) and so don't feel it's expected of us to do it, even though we've read about it in the scriptures and heard about it over the pulpit.  We almost feel like it's really all right by the examples we've continually and constantly seen.  It's become a multi-generational collusion--almost like all involved have said, by their looks and winks and "understandings" that, "I won't do it" or "Will do it" if you won't do it or will do it, and then neither of us will say anything to anyone about it and act like it never happened!

Hello, Gadianton robbers!  Hello, Large and Spacious Building dwellers!  Deniers...

 

JPS 

Closer

 

As we literally and figuratively (and spiritually) are “spread out” and are far from each other, we become spread-out and distant and our flames of love for each other and for our beliefs start to fade and are more easily extinguished or naturally become extinguished...

But, if we remain close to each other, our flames and coals re-ignite each other as the strength of our love and trust waxes and grows stronger! If you want to rekindle your love, get closer—both physically and in ideas and in thoughts, but if you move apart from each other, your love and thoughts and ideas will fade until they become cold and burned-out...